Arrested were 39-year-old Tonya Raynell Patterson of Kelseyville 46-year-old Walter Ronald Mishler, both of Kelseyville, according to Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
On July 13, narcotics agents secured a search warrant for Patterson's person, home and vehicles.
On Thursday, July 14, at approximately 3 p.m., detectives served the warrant at Patterson’s Wheeler Drive home in Kelseyville with the assistance of the Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Detail, Bauman said.
When narcotics detectives announced themselves at the door to the home, they received no response, according to Bauman.
As detectives entered the home through the unlocked front door, a suspect fled out of the home through a rear sliding door but was detained in the back yard by Special Enforcement Detail deputies. Bauman said the man was later identified as Mishler, who was determined to be under the influence of a controlled substance and arrested. Patterson was not located in the home.
Bauman said that when detectives entered the home, they located a police scanner actively monitoring the sheriff’s primary radio frequency in the master bedroom.
He said a search of that same bedroom revealed approximately one ounce of methamphetamine packaged for sales in several individual bags beneath a night stand. Several glass “meth” pipes, digital scales, and other items of methamphetamine sales paraphernalia were also found in the bedroom. Several more “meth” pipes were located in various locations throughout the house.
Mishler was transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility for booking. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for sales, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
Bail was set at $10,000, jail records indicated Mishler later posted bail and was released.
Shortly after narcotics detectives left Patterson's home on Wheeler Drive, she was located by a Special Enforcement Detail deputy in her vehicle on Big Valley Road in Finley, Bauman said.
She too, was arrested for the controlled substances and paraphernalia found in her home, and for being under the influence of a controlled substance, according to Bauman.
He said Patterson was subsequently booked at the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility for possession of a controlled substance, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
Her bail was set at $10,000; she also later posted bail and was released, jail records indicated.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force can be reached through its anonymous tip line at 707-263-3663.
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